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Overview

Laurie Padman is affiliated with Oregon State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with particular contributions in subfields such as Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Environmental Chemistry, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

Their work spans several main topics, including:

  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Padman has published extensively in multiple scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Scientific Data
  • The Cryosphere

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves," 2020, Nature Geoscience
  • "Weakening of Cold Halocline Layer Exposes Sea Ice to Oceanic Heat in the Eastern Arctic Ocean," 2020, Journal of Climate
  • "Tidally Forced Lee Waves Drive Turbulent Mixing Along the Arctic Ocean Margins," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Intensification of Near-Surface Currents and Shear in the Eastern Arctic Ocean," 2020, Geophysical Research Letters
  • "Multidecadal Basal Melt Rates and Structure of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, Using Airborne Ice Penetrating Radar," 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Earth Surface

Frequent co-authors of Laurie Padman include:

  • H. A. Fricker
  • Susan L. Howard
  • Ilker Fer
  • Matthew R. Siegfried
  • Igor V. Polyakov

Best Publications

  • Antarctic ice-sheet loss driven by basal melting of ice shelves

    H. D. Pritchard;S. R. M. Ligtenberg;H. A. Fricker;D. G. Vaughan

  • Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

    Fernando S. Paolo;Helen A. Fricker;Laurie Padman

  • An Active Subglacial Water System in West Antarctica Mapped from Space

    Helen Amanda Fricker;Ted Scambos;Robert Bindschadler;Laurie Padman

  • Accuracy assessment of global barotropic ocean tide models

    D. Stammer;R. D. Ray;Ole Baltazar Andersen;B. K. Arbic

  • A new tide model for the Antarctic ice shelves and seas

    Laurie Padman;Helen A. Fricker;Richard Coleman;Susan Howard

  • A barotropic inverse tidal model for the Arctic Ocean

    L. Padman;S. Erofeeva

  • Interannual variations in meltwater input to the Southern Ocean from Antarctic ice shelves

    Susheel Adusumilli;Helen Amanda Fricker;Brooke Medley;Laurie Padman

  • Ice-shelf collapse from subsurface warming as a trigger for Heinrich events

    Shaun A. Marcott;Peter U. Clark;Laurie Padman;Gary P. Klinkhammer

  • Toward Quantifying the Increasing Role of Oceanic Heat in Sea Ice Loss in the New Arctic

    Eddy Carmack;Igor V. Polyakov;Laurie Padman;Ilker Fer

  • Ice shelf water overflow and bottom water formation in the southern Weddell Sea

    Arne Foldvik;Tor Gammelsrød;Svein Østerhus;E. Fahrbach

  • Tidally controlled stick-slip discharge of a West Antarctic ice.

    Robert A. Bindschadler;Matt A. King;Richard B. Alley;Sridhar Anandakrishnan

  • Getting around Antarctica: new high-resolution mappings of the grounded and freely-floating boundaries of the Antarctic ice sheet created for the International Polar Year

    Robert Bindschadler;Hyeungu Choi;Amy Wichlacz;Robert George Bingham

  • Vertical heat fluxes through the Beaufort Sea thermohaline staircase

    Laurie Padman;Thomas M. Dillon

  • Ice shelf grounding zone structure from ICESat laser altimetry

    Helen Amanda Fricker;Laurie Padman

  • Ocean Tide Influences on the Antarctic and Greenland Ice Sheets

    Laurie Padman;Matthew R. Siegfried;Matthew R. Siegfried;Helen A. Fricker

  • Mapping the grounding zone of the Amery Ice Shelf, East Antarctica using InSAR, MODIS and ICESat

    Helen Amanda Fricker;Richard Coleman;Laurie Padman;Ted A. Scambos

  • Mapping the grounding zone of the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, using ICESat laser altimetry

    Kelly M. Brunt;Helen A. Fricker;Laurie Padman;Ted A. Scambos

  • Turbulent mixing near the Yermak Plateau during the Coordinated Eastern Arctic Experiment

    Laurie Padman;Thomas M. Dillon

  • Melting and freezing beneath Filchner‐Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica

    Ian Joughin;Laurence Padman

  • Ross Ice Shelf response to climate driven by the tectonic imprint on seafloor bathymetry

    K. J. Tinto;L. Padman;C. S. Siddoway;S. R. Springer

  • Tides in the Weddell Sea

    Robin Robertson;Laurie Padman;Gary D. Egbert

Frequent Co-Authors

Helen A. Fricker
Helen A. Fricker University of California, San Diego
Igor V. Polyakov
Igor V. Polyakov University of Alaska Fairbanks
Keith W. Nicholls
Keith W. Nicholls Natural Environment Research Council
Matt A. King
Matt A. King University of Tasmania
Matthew R. Siegfried
Matthew R. Siegfried Colorado School of Mines
Andreas Münchow
Andreas Münchow University of Delaware
Richard Coleman
Richard Coleman University of Tasmania
Ilker Fer
Ilker Fer University of Bergen
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg
Stefan R. M. Ligtenberg Utrecht University
Vladimir Ivanov
Vladimir Ivanov Lomonosov Moscow State University

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